Sentence examples for vernacular structures from inspiring English sources

Dry stone retaining walls (DSRWs) are vernacular structures which can be found all over the world.

Like his photographs, the other artworks Christenberry made – collages, paintings and small, formally exact models of vernacular structures that he called "dream buildings" – tended towards the quietly haunting.

When Brooks was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1984, he designed Il Risorgimento -- a cross between an obelisk and a pyramid, with canvas wings -- which somehow recalls the vernacular structures of his New England childhood.

Vernacular structures provide communities with shelter using indigenous natural resources, meeting economic needs, while aligning with values, lifestyle and more symbolic functions of a culture.

The form of vernacular structures and settlements arose from the ordered complexity of our own minds and bodies – human neurological processes display fractal properties, as does the biology of our cells and lungs.

The study hypothesis argues that, when retrofitted and equipped with renewable energy solutions, vernacular structures can act as nearly zero energy buildings.

Sam and Nadia Scoggins preside over The Stone House B&B, a fieldstone Dutch vernacular structure, dating from 1705, just outside of tiny Hurley NY.

Abstracting the forms of vernacular Cuban structures -- lighthouse, factory, apartment house, church, jail -- into a collapsible city of tents, Mr. Arrechea, Mr. Rodríguez and Mr. Castillo have pared the inessentials and left only sleekly designed metaphors that have the surface clarity of work by Richard Artschwager or Donald Judd.

And he broadened the notion of what constituted important historical resources to include "vernacular" buildings, structures like the 19th-century cast-iron industrial lofts of SoHo, which were not designed in high style yet spoke eloquently about the cultures that created them.

However, the vernacular construction is ever-dominating the other construction technologies and typology of structures in terms of wall systems.

Certainly it is filled with marketing vernacular and is structured in an authentic manner (ie, essentially stating the same things over and over again, but in differently headed sections).